Every now and then in various skylines and stories about my city, the subject of Vulcan comes up. And without fail, one or more of you ask: “Why does Birmingham have the world’s largest cast iron butt overlooking itself?” Okay maybe you don’t ask it quite like that because maybe you didn’t know that Vulcan […]
How to Take and Edit Powerful iPhone Photos
So you might have noticed that I’ve been on a bit of a photography bender lately. Mostly sunsets, with a few kids thrown in. All of my recent photos have been taken with my iPhone, and not my big, fancy DSLR with a bigger, even fancier lens. In fact, I didn’t even get it out […]
50 Restaurants in Crappy Photos, Round Four.
To recap, I’m on a mission to visit fifty restaurants I’ve never been to and report back to you with honest reviews and crappy photos. Prior research can be found here, here, here, and here. 11. 26. It would have been much more literary had I waited for restaurant #26 to visit 26, but […]
Birmingham from Within.
Yesterday, I headed back downtown to get my heart monitor. I wasn’t remarkably excited about the errand, but I was distracted from that when I found everyone’s favorite word to hate, in graffiti form. A few weeks ago, I had seen “Moist” on an interstate overpass, but I wasn’t quick enough to get a picture. […]
An Ode to The Duke.
Disclaimer: Not for the Ladylike of Heart. I’ve been feeling a small measure of guilt recently about our non-existent household rules about “potty-talk.” Perhaps these rules don’t exist because our children are more polite than us. For instance, I might have been heard singing the song, “We wish you a Merry Pooping, We wish you […]
Birmingham Rocks Their Eyes. {And a Giveaway}
On Saturday, I had my fifth eye appointment in a month. Although I don’t wear contacts or glasses (except for reading…sometimes), my eyes can be real divas. And what’s worse, I’ve recently found out that I’m a “reactor” to most eye medications, especially steroids. (Which means that the pressure in my eyes increases to an […]
50 Restaurants in Crappy Photos: Round Three.
For a quick recap, the purpose of this series is to eat at fifty restaurants that I’ve never visited before in and around Birmingham (although I’ve been known to break my own rules.) Feel free to catch up with Round One and Round Two. Although we usually eat local, chains aren’t against the rules, and […]
There’s No Place Like Home.
This is another guest post by Chris the Husband, Contributing Editor and all around good guy. I don’t know a ton about cars. Or racing. But I hear that we have a super cool race track here in Birmingham. Barber Motorsports Park has a giant motorcycle museum, a road course, and tons or beautiful scenery. […]
Giveaway: Adventure With Us at Red Mountain Park! {$100 Value}
As soon as Chris and I first heard of the Red Mountain Park Project, we were elated. We’ve been known to explore random wooded parts of our city just to say that we could, so a giant park (1,200 acres!) with multiple trails and scenic views…we couldn’t wait for it to open. And then it […]